About the Faculty

Eckart Frahm
Professor of Assyriology
Office: SML 319
eckart.frahm@yale.edu
Phone: (203-)432-5584

Mail Address:
Babylonian Collection
Yale University Library
130 Wall Street
Box 208240
New Haven, CT 06520

Eckart Frahm (PhD Goettingen 1996, Habilitation Heidelberg 2007) has been an Assistant Professor of Assyriology at Yale since 2002 and a Professor since 2008. His main research interests lie in the fields of Assyrian and Babylonian history and Mesopotamian scholarly texts of the first millennium B.C. His undergraduate courses at Yale have covered Mesopotamian history, religion, and literature, and the Bible in its ancient Near Eastern setting.

Frahm is the author of a book about the Assyrian king Sennacherib, published in the series “Beihefte des Archivs fuer Orientforschung“ (Vienna), and of two books currently in press: a volume co-authored with Michael Jursa that provides autographs of two hundred Late Babylonian letters from ancient Uruk now in the Yale Babylonian Collection, and an edition of unpublished historical texts from Assur housed in the Vorderasiatisches Museum (Berlin). In addition, Frahm recently completed a monograph to appear in 2009 on Babylonian and Assyrian scholarly commentaries and the origins of ancient hermeneutics. Frahm has written numerous articles, encyclopedia contributions, and book reviews on topics including Sumerian royal inscriptions, the ancient reception of the Gilgamesh epic, Mesopotamian prophecy, and Babylonian prisons, as well as the history of modern scholarship on the ancient Near East.

Before coming to Yale, Frahm was a research assistant for a project under the direction of Stefan Maul devoted to the reconstruction and publication of the cuneiform texts from the Assyrian capital of Assur (Iraq), and Assistant Professor of Assyriology at Heidelberg. He served in 2001 as epigrapher in the German excavations at Assur and has worked extensively in the collections of the British Museum in London and the Vorderasiatisches Museum in Berlin. In 2004, Frahm served as an instructor in a USAID sponsored summer course for Iraqi archaeologists and assyriologists held at the American Center for Oriental Research in Amman (Jordan).

Frahm is co-founder and editor, together with Michael Jursa, of the series Guides to the Mesopotamian Textual Record (Münster: Ugarit Verlag), and subject editor for Assyriology of the series Culture and History of the Ancient Near East (Leiden/Boston: Brill). He serves as an external editorial advisor for the project “The Geography of Knowledge in Assyria and Babylonia” directed by Eleanor Robson (Cambridge University), and as a member of the advisory board of the Zeitschrift fuer Orient-Archaeologie (Berlin: De Gruyter). In 2007, he was elected Corresponding Member of the German Archaeological Institute.

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